Meanwhile, several other House committees are digging aggressively into the president, his 2016 campaign, his businesses and his associates
The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee said Sunday that he plans to request documents from scores of people and organizations connected to President Donald Trump as part of an inquiry that could eventually lead to Trump’s impeachment.
The demands from Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., set to be delivered Monday, are the latest indication that Democrats have kicked their scrutiny of Trump into high gear. Speaking on ABC News’ “This Week,” Nadler said his panel’s more than 60 targets include the president’s son Donald Trump Jr.; Allen Weisselberg, the chief financial officer of the Trump Organization; and the Justice Department.
The materials, the congressman said, would be used “to begin investigations to present the case to the American people about obstruction of justice, corruption and abuse of power.”
“Impeachment is a long way down the road. We don’t have the facts yet. But we’re going to initiate proper investigations,” he said.
Trump, taking to Twitter after Nadler’s comments, lashed out anew at “more than two years of Presidential Harassment.”
“I am an innocent man being persecuted by some very bad, conflicted & corrupt people in a Witch Hunt that is illegal & should never have been allowed to start,” he wrote. “And only because I won the Election! Despite this, great success!
Meanwhile, several other House committees are digging aggressively into the president, his 2016 campaign, his businesses and his associates.
Impeachment is a long way down the road. We don’t have the facts yet. But we’re going to initiate proper investigations
Nadler’s announcement came just days after the House Oversight and Reform Committee publicly questioned former Trump personal attorney Michael Cohen, who implicated Trump in several serious crimes, including potential campaign finance violations connected to hush-money payoffs to women and possible fraud charges concerning falsified documents provided to banks and insurance companies.
Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., the oversight panel’s chairman, said last week that he, too, was interested in securing testimony from Trump’s children and Weisselberg, who has overseen the financial details of Trump’s business ventures for decades.
Also last week, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal, D-Mass., asked his staff to begin preparing a request for Trump’s past tax returns to be submitted to the Treasury Department in the coming weeks. The request, first reported by NBC News, was confirmed by two Democratic aides familiar with Neal’s action but not authorized to discuss it publicly.
